Chapter 950: Tank Battle
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In a No. 4 tank, the commander quickly gave the order, the gunner quickly began to turn the tank gun, and the 75mm tank gun immediately began to aim at the little devil Type 94 tank.
The Type 94 tank has only one machine gun, and its armor is only 12 mm thick, and for the No. 4 tank, which can penetrate 38 mm of armor at a distance of 500 meters, whether it is a Japanese Type 89 tank or a Japanese Type 94 tank, they will not be an opponent.
An armor-piercing projectile was quickly fired, and this armor-piercing projectile accurately hit the Japanese Type 94 tank on the move.
The Type 94 tank that was hit was destroyed on the spot, but the Japanese began to fire at the Type 89 tank as well.
The tanks on both sides launched a fierce battle, and the tank guns continued to fire armor-piercing shells, and for a time here in Gaokou Village, armor-piercing shells were constantly shot out.
The Japanese were armed with Type 89 and Type 94 tanks, while the New 1st Division was equipped with tanks No. 4 and No. 3.
The tanks of the new 1st Division were in a quantitative and qualitative advantage, and the Japanese tanks were simply vulnerable to these German tanks.
Japanese tanks began to be destroyed, black smoke slowly rose into the air, and after the armor-piercing shells detonated the ammunition inside the tank, it caused a huge explosion.
Kunomura Momoyo saw that the number of tanks in him was getting smaller and smaller, and the number of tank troops of the new 1st Division was still superior, and his brows furrowed tightly.
Now that the tanks of the two sides have been mixed up, the Japanese air force will not be able to carry out effective strikes, and Kunomura Momoyo knows that the air force will not play any role at present.
He couldn't help but hold up the binoculars and look behind him, but there was no trace of the Takahashi detachment that was supposed to come to support.
Kunomura Momoyo was only able to order an infantry brigade attached to the tank group to attack quickly and cooperate with the tank troops.
"Your Excellency, the performance of the Chinese chariot is superior to ours, and if we continue to fight, I am afraid that our chariot troops will be completely wiped out. At present, the aviation units are unable to carry out support operations, and there is no trace of the Takahashi detachment, so I suggest that the troops immediately withdraw back and distance themselves from the Shina tank, so as to create an opportunity for the aviation units. ”
Hiroyoshi Ishii, the captain of the Fifth Brigade of the Japanese Tank, immediately ran in front of Kunomura Momoyo, and he said in a solemn tone.
The Fifth Tank Brigade had 38 Type 89 tanks and 22 Type 94 tanks, but 15 of their 60 tanks had been destroyed, especially the fragile Type 94 tanks, which were almost entirely used as live targets by the armored troops of the New 1st Division.
Ishii Hiroyoshi was worried that if the fight continued, the troops would most likely be wiped out.
"The 5th Tank Brigade immediately advanced from the right side of the China Army, the 7th Tank Wing pinned down the China Army from the left, and the 9th Independent Light Armored Vehicle Squadron covered the 2nd Infantry Brigade to establish a defensive position, and the divisions immediately advanced and distanced themselves from the China Army."
Kunomura Momoyo immediately began to give orders, he vetoed the evacuation request of Hiroyoshi Ishii, the commander of the fifth tank brigade, and he gave orders to the troops to continue the advance.
Under the current circumstances, if the Japanese troops were to withdraw, the fragile rear of the Japanese tanks would be directly exposed to the artillery strikes of the new 1st division's tanks.
The thickest part of the tank's armor is directly in front, and the rear armor is thinner than the front, and Kunomura Momoyo knows this.
He made the tank troops quickly rush to the front, and he wanted to create a counterattack on the flank of the tank units of the new 1st Division, so as to destroy a large number of tanks of the new 1st Division.
At the same time, even if the Japanese troops could not attack the tanks of the new 1st Division, they could quickly move to the front, thereby widening the distance between them and the tanks of the New 1st Division, creating an opportunity for the aviation forces.
Kunomura Momoyo went to Germany this time to study hard, and he had a new understanding of armored combat.
As Kunomura Momoyo's orders began to be given, the Japanese tank units began to move quickly towards the front.
At this time, Yin Jinshan, who was also commanding operations on the front line, saw that the Japanese tanks began to accelerate towards the front, and he quickly gave an order.
The armored artillery battalion, the armored assault artillery battalion, the 3rd armored battalion, the 4th armored battalion immediately began to launch a full-line attack.
Sixteen guns began to fire, eight of which were 50mm anti-tank guns, which became the nemesis of the Japanese tank forces.
The eight anti-tank guns were all veterans, and they had a lot of combat experience, and as long as the armor-piercing shells were fired from here, the Japanese tanks would definitely be heavily damaged.
Fifty Vickers tanks also began to take part in the battle, which broke through directly from the center and went head-to-head with the Japanese tanks.
The Vickers tank was armed with a 47mm short-barreled rapid-fire gun, and the tank had 50 rounds of ammunition inside, including 20 armor-piercing rounds and 30 high-explosive rounds.
When firing with armor-piercing shells, the Vickers tank could penetrate 25 mm of armor at a distance of 500 meters.
The Japanese Army's Type 89 tank, which claimed to be a medium tank, had only 17 millimeters of frontal armor.
Armor-piercing shells were fired one after another, and the armored assault gun battalion attacked from the center, the 3rd armored battalion from the left, and the 4th armored battalion from the right.
Hundreds of tanks faced the rapid advance of the Japanese tanks, and they formed a horizontal queue to directly intercept the Japanese tanks.
The tanks of the little devils began to lie on their stomachs one by one, and there would be a big bullet hole in the armor of these devil soldiers.
Some of the tanks that had been detonated with internal ammunition began to burn, black smoke rose into the air, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.
The tank group of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army and the armored first battle group formed by most of the 3rd Armored Brigade of the New 1st Division encountered near Gaokou Village in Jing'an County, and then a decisive battle broke out between the two sides.
By 5 p.m., the 1st Panzer Group had lost 7 No. 3 tanks, two No. 4 tanks, 10 Vickers tanks, and some anti-aircraft machine guns, while the Japanese lost 22 Type 94 tanks, 18 Type 89 tanks, and 12 Type 91 armored vehicles, and the infantry brigade that followed the battle in cars also lost more than 300 men.
At a critical time, Kunomura Momoyo had to ask the air force to bomb and bomb with the help of the Japanese air force, so he withdrew with his troops in embarrassment.
The 1st Armored Battle Group wanted to catch up, but was carpet-bombed by the Japanese air force, and Yin Jinshan had to order the troops to start dispersing and hiding to avoid the bombing of the air force.
In this battle, the armored forces of the two sides fought, and the new 1st Division lost 17 tanks, and the Japanese lost 40 tanks, but for the new 1st Division, this record was a defeat.
However, most of the tanks lost by the new 1st Division were blown up by the Japanese air force, and the Chinese troops, who did not have any air supremacy, had no way to do this.